Guess the Architecture

Guess the Architecture is a place for engineers to test their knowledge of world architecture. Each week the CR4 team will post a different piece of architecture from around the world. We're looking for guesses at where it might be, or some information regarding the structure in the comments below.

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Re: Guess the Architecture! for 1/31/2017

02/06/2017 11:26 AM

Randall was on the right track this week, since the White House was left abandoned until the Maclean-Bristols and WT Architecture built within the structure (a process they documented step-by-step). In a New York Times article on the structure, Mrs. Maclean-Bristol says, “we always wanted to do up this ruin… but we wanted to be honest to it, as the ruin itself was what we liked. People on Coll [an island in the Inner Hebrides] have incredibly personal relationships with ruins on the island, so we didn’t want to create the sense that it would be utterly destroyed forever, with a silly pastiche in its place.” This idea comes through particularly well in that one cracked exterior wall was allowed to remain cracked (while also having been shored up structurally).